Ofcom UK Launches Investigation into BT’s Weekend 999 Failure
As expected, Ofcom has today formally launched an investigation into telecoms giant BT, which follows the significant UK-wide disruption to emergency call services that occurred as a result of a fault on their 999 service during Sunday 25th June 2023. The regulator’s existing General Conditions rules (i.e. General Condition A3.2 and sections 105A and 105C […]
Cable Thieves Continue to Attack Openreach’s Cambridgeshire Network
The Cambridgeshire Constabulary has appealed for information after they revealed that Openreach’s UK broadband and phone network in the county had been attacked eight times since May 2023 by criminal gangs, which typically target the theft of underground copper cables and often cause significant service outages. In this case the criminals are understood to have […]
Orange-MásMóvil merger may reduce competition in Spain, says European Commission
News The European Commission has responded to Orange and MásMóvil’s proposed 19,6 billion euro merger with a Statement of Objections. The preliminary view of the Commission is that the “proposed joint venture may reduce competition in the retail supply of mobile and fixed internet services” in Spain. If approved, the tie-up would see Orange and MásMóvil, the second and fourth largest providers in Spain respectively, form a 50:50 joint venture. The combined operator would have approximately 7.1...
Openreach UK Extends FTTP Pilot of 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps Broadband Again
Broadband ISPs that were planning to launch faster packages based off Openreach’s future Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) tiers, which push top download speeds to 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps (both offer 120Mbps upstream), may have to wait a little bit longer as the operator has extended their pilot test for another 3 months. The original pilot started on 1st […]
Broadband ISP Zen Internet Offers Refurbished WiFi Repeaters
UK ISP Zen Internet recently announced that they’d begun making older “refurbished” versions of their EveryRoom mesh WiFi extender service and hardware (repeaters) available to broadband customers, which only cost £6 per month instead of the usual £9 per month for the new kit. Saving money and cutting electronic waste. The EveryRoom service, which effectively […]
Conquering Yorkshire – altnet lays out plans for success
News The UK’s leading rural full fibre broadband alternative network provider has pledged to connect underserved and hard-to-reach communities as work begins to extend its network to more than 16,000 homes and businesses in Yorkshire. Gigaclear’s full fibre network already extends across 23 counties in southern and central England and its move into Yorkshire is a continuation of its expansion northwards. Engineers will start working in Brayton this week, moving on to Cawood, Thorpe Willoughby...
Quick Summary of UK FTTP Broadband Builder Zzoomm’s Results
Oxfordshire-based full fibre network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm has today published a summary of their annual financial results, which among other things reveals that their FTTP broadband network now covers (RFS) over 140,000 properties (2022: 38,000) and they’re home to over 12,000 (2022 3,700) customers. The operator, which aims to cover 1 million premises […]
Future Connections and Budget Thuis strengthen their partnership with a framework agreement
Press Release Future Connections, the independent telco solutions provider and software developer with in-depth experience in network performance assurance, optimisation and automation and in telco managed services, and Budget Thuis, the first provider to combine energy, home internet, television and mobile services in the Netherlands aiming to provide reliable services at affordable prices, today announced the signing of a 3 year contract for the provision of Telecom Inhome Services across...
Confusion as UK Lyca Mobile Users Swap from O2 to EE MVNO
Customers of UK mobile operator Lyca Mobile, which until now has long held a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement to harness O2’s (VMO2) national network, have over the past few days begun informing ISPreview that their service has been stealthily switched to an EE based platform. Normally, we’d expect a major change in MVNO […]
White House announces state BEAD allocations
NEWS President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have announced how the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) funds will be divided among U.S. states and territories President Biden, Vice President Harris and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the allocations at the White House on Monday June 26. “What this announcement means for people across the country is that if you don’t have access to quality, affordable high-speed Internet service now – you...